Max Duffy
{{short description|Australian player of multiple football codes}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Max Duffy
| image =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|4|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia
| height = 185 cm
| weight = 84 kg
| module = {{Infobox AFL biography|embed=yes
| originalteam = East Fremantle (WAFL)
| draftpick = No. 39, 2012 National Draft, {{AFL Fre}}
| position = Forward
| statsend = 2015
| years1 = 2013–2015
| club1 = {{AFL Fre}}
| games_goals1 = 3 (3)
| careerhighlights =
}}
| module2 = {{Infobox NFL biography
| embed = yes
| name = Max Duffy
| current_team =
| number =
| position = Punter
| high_school = Kent Street Senior High School
| college = Kentucky
| undraftedyear = 2021
| cfldraftyear = 2021G
| cfldraftround = 4
| cfldraftpick = 30
| pastteams = * Denver Broncos ({{NFL Year|2021}})*
- Pittsburgh Maulers ({{USFL Year|2022}})
| status =
| highlights = *Ray Guy Award (2019)
- Unanimous All-American (2019)
- First-team All-SEC (2019)
- Second-team All-SEC (2020)
}}
}}
Max Duffy (born 11 April 1993) is an Australian former American football punter. He was the punter for the Kentucky Wildcats and also an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Duffy attended Kent Street Senior High School.{{cite web | url=https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2010/10/%E2%80%98Kentians%E2%80%99-gather-as-Kent-Street-High-School-turns-70.aspx | title=Grassroots: Mzungu & Duffy return to Kent St | access-date=10 July 2015 | archive-date=8 August 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011920/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2010/10/%E2%80%98Kentians%E2%80%99-gather-as-Kent-Street-High-School-turns-70.aspx | url-status=dead }}
He mainly played basketball as a junior and only converted to Australian rules football after missing selection in a state squad. He was not selected in the first two AFL drafts that he nominated for, and was working as a tree lopper while playing for East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) when he was recruited with 39th draft pick in the 2012 AFL Draft.{{cite web |url=http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2012-11-27/draftee-a-forward-prospect |title=Draftee a forward prospect? |first=Nathan |last=Schmook |date=27 November 2012 |access-date=9 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015627/http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2012-11-27/draftee-a-forward-prospect |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Australian football career
Due to a series of shoulder and hamstring injuries, Duffy spent significant periods of the 2013 and 2014 seasons out of the game. He made his debut for the Fremantle Football Club in round 20, 2014 against Geelong following some good form in the WAFL for Peel.{{cite news|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24658093/duffy-named-for-freo-clash-with-cats/|title=Duffy named for Freo clash with Cats|first=Nick|last=Rynne|work=The West Australian|date=7 August 2014}} After starting the game as the substitute, he kicked a goal with his first kick in the AFL and kicked a second goal late in the last quarter, however, Fremantle lost by two points.{{cite news|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-08-09/five-talking-points-geelong-v-fremantle|title=Five talking points: Geelong v Fremantle|first=Peter |last=Ryan |date= 9 August 2014}}
Duffy was delisted at the conclusion of the 2015 season.{{cite news|url=http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2015-10-08/duffield-and-crowley-to-depart|title=Duffield and Crowley to depart|date=8 October 2015|work=FremantleFC.com.au|publisher=Bigpond|access-date=8 October 2015}}
He then joined West Perth in the WAFL for the 2016 season. Prior to the 2017 season, however, he announced his retirement from Australian to train to become an American football punter.{{cite news|title=Ex-Docker eyes off second career in the NFL|url=https://thewest.com.au/sport/fremantle-dockers/ex-docker-max-duffy-eyes-off-career-as-an-nfl-punter-ng-b88374358z|access-date=18 April 2018|work=The West Australian|date=4 February 2017}}
American football career
In December 2017, Duffy was signed by the Kentucky Wildcats as a punter. Ray Guy’s ProKicker.com rated him as the top 2018 punting prospect.{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Jennifer|title=A capsicum conundrum? It's one of many complications for new Kentucky punter.|url=http://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/kentucky-sports/uk-football/article197798144.html |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |location=Lexington, Kentucky |access-date=18 April 2018|date=1 February 2018|language=en}} Duffy earned GPR Analytics National Punter of the Year in 2019 with an NCAA leading 98.30 GPR Punt Rating{{Cite web|url=https://gprpuntrating.wixsite.com/gpr2018|title=GPR Analytics|website=Gpr2018|language=en|access-date=2020-01-19|archive-date=26 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926220328/https://gprpuntrating.wixsite.com/gpr2018|url-status=dead}}
Duffy was drafted by the Toronto Argonauts in the fourth round of the 2021 CFL Global Draft on 15 April 2021.{{cite web |title=2021 Global Draft Tracker |url=https://www.cfl.ca/2021-global-draft-tracker/ |website=CFL.ca |access-date=April 15, 2021}} He signed with the Denver Broncos of the NFL as an undrafted free agent on 24 May 2021.{{cite web |last=DiLalla |first=Aric |title=Broncos sign P Max Duffy|url=https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/broncos-sign-p-max-duffy|work=Denver Broncos |date=May 24, 2021 |accessdate=May 24, 2021}} He was waived on June 17.
On 10 March 2022, Duffy was drafted by the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxsports.com/stories/usfl/usfl-draft-supplemental-pick-results |title=USFL DRAFT 2022: SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT PICK-BY-PICK RESULTS |date=March 10, 2022 |publisher=Fox Media LLC |work=www.foxsports.com |access-date=March 11, 2022}}
Statistics
:Statistics are correct to the end of the 2015 season{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/M/Max_Duffy.html|title=Max Duffy|publisher=AFL Tables|access-date=1 August 2016}}
{{AFL player statistics legend}}
{{AFL player statistics start}}
|-
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2014
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Fre}}
| 24 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 7 || 3 || 10 || 2 || 0 || 1.0 || 0.5 || 3.5 || 1.5 || 5.0 || 1.0 || 0.0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Fre}}
| 24 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 5 || 7 || 12 || 3 || 1 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 5.0 || 7.0 || 12.5 || 3.0 || 1.0
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 3
! 3
! 1
! 12
! 10
! 22
! 5
! 1
! 1.0
! 0.3
! 4.0
! 3.3
! 7.3
! 1.7
! 0.3
|}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://ukathletics.com/sports/football/roster/player/max-duffy/ Profile] from University of Kentucky Wildcats
- {{AFL Tables}}
- {{AustralianFootball}}
- {{WAFL FootyFacts}}
- [https://www.wafl.com.au/player/max-duffy Max Duffy's WAFL statistics]
{{2012 AFL national draft}}
{{Ray Guy Award}}
{{2019 NCAA Division I FBS College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duffy, Max}}
Category:American football punters
Category:Australian players of American football
Category:Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Category:Denver Broncos players
Category:Kentucky Wildcats football players
Category:Fremantle Football Club players
Category:East Fremantle Football Club players
Category:Peel Thunder Football Club players
Category:West Perth Football Club players
Category:People educated at Kent Street Senior High School
Category:All-American college football players